Title :
Nonlinear silicon nanophotonics for mid-infrared applications
Author :
Green, William M J ; Liu, Xiaoping ; Kuyken, Bart ; Osgood, Richard M., Jr. ; Roelkens, Gunther ; Baets, Roel ; Vlasov, Yurii A.
Author_Institution :
IBM T. J. Watson Res. Center, Yorktown Heights, NY, USA
Abstract :
The silicon nanophotonic wire platform can be applied toward development of integrated optical devices for the generation and processing of mid-infrared light signals. The demonstration of a mid-infrared optical parametric amplifier will be reviewed, and recent work aimed at expanded gain bandwidth and reduced pump power requirements will be presented.
Keywords :
elemental semiconductors; integrated optics; nanophotonics; nonlinear optics; optical parametric amplifiers; silicon; Si; gain bandwidth; integrated optical devices; mid-infrared applications; mid-infrared light signals; mid-infrared optical parametric amplifier; nonlinear silicon nanophotonics; pump power requirements; silicon nanophotonic wire platform; Gain; Nonlinear optics; Optical waveguides; Photonics; Silicon; System-on-a-chip; Wires;
Conference_Titel :
Information Photonics (IP), 2011 ICO International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Ottawa, ON
Print_ISBN :
978-1-61284-315-5
DOI :
10.1109/ICO-IP.2011.5953808
